HARDCORE Synonyms

• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

• taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance

• difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill

• severely simple

• of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect

• practicing great self-denial

• requiring full use of your abilities or resources

• stimulating interest or thought

• disturbingly provocative

• devoted to a cause or ideal or purpose

• solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose

• requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill

• one who adheres to traditional views

• not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

• hard to control

• the furthest or highest degree of something

• the point located farthest from the middle of something

• of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity

• far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree

• beyond a norm in views or actions

• most distant in any direction

• a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)

• marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea

• marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea

• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

• possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree

• extremely sharp or severe

• (of color) having the highest saturation

• not easily borne; wearing

• not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

• never-ceasing

• rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard

• demanding strict attention to rules and procedures

• intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality

• very strong or vigorous

• severely simple

• unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• very bad in degree or extent

• characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint

• rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard

• (of rules) stringently enforced

• incapable of compromise or flexibility

• severe and unremitting in making demands

• not given to gentleness or sentimentality

• physically toughened

• resistant to cutting or chewing

• someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

• an aggressive and violent young criminal

• a cruel and brutal fellow

• very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution

• substantially made or constructed

• violent and lawless

• feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• not making concessions